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Summary: Factual and intresting....and flawed
Review: Like the other Star Wars: Essential Guide books this book allows you to see what ships that featured in the many books looked like. A lot of the familier ships are here TIEs, X-Wings, Mon Cal Cruisers and Star Destroyers along with many unfamilier vessels Dreadnoughts, Victory Star Destroyers and Cloakshape fighters including several vessels from the books that covered the period some 10,000 or so years before the films. Giving manufacturer names, specifacations and some facts about each craft this book is useful if you ever wanted to know a little more about the Star Wars ships and vehicles.However this book does have some flaws. It gives the size of the Executor SSD at 8,000 meters, it has since been agreed that the Executor is closer to 18.5 KMs in length LARGER that the Eclipse by a full kilometer Lucas himself has apparently confirmed this. Also the Victory and Imperial Star Destroyers have the pictures mixed up. Apart from these flaws it is an interesting book.
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Summary: If you are a star wars fan you cant do without this book.
Review: The Star Wars essintial guide to vehicles and vessels is a great book that covers everything that you will ever need to know about any ship you have seen in the movies, games, or any where. It covers all ships and vessels from the escape pod used by the princess to send r2 and c3po to the planet of tatoonie to the largest imperial star destroyer. It also covers many of your other favorite weapons and vehicals like all of the imperial walkers, and all of the speeder bikes. It covers everything about the ships like who designed it, who uses it, who produces it the length in meters and width in meters, history about the ship, and what weapons it uses. If you have any questions about the ships of any kind you need this book.
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Summary: An essential purchase for any Star Wars reader
Review: The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels is a key reference book for the casual Star Wars fan or avid reader keen to know what their galaxy is flying and driving. Combining fun and informative knowledge makes this a great treat, and with the newer edition now out, there's no better time to acquire this when the price is low and many entries don't appear in the second guide. Each ship or vehicle is rendered with an outline schematic and pencilled illustration. Though colourless, depth and detail are more than sufficient to give you an exact idea what they are. Key systems and functions are labelled, telling you the placement of guns and other technical stuff, which is useful, though some tags are no more than just telling you this a support struts, that an engine nacelle. Pictures are brought to life by description, and the description for entries varied considerably. It's certainly informative for a casual reader, but many fans will find it light in detail too many places, specifics too vague at times. These guides should provide the basic specs of a ship: like manufacturer, length, number and types of guns, fighter complement, speed, and perhaps cargo capacity. While the Imperial Star Destroyer had extensive stats, the Ubrikkian space cruiser didn't even have a length, while the sandcrawler's height is only given, not its length. Both guides say only the Super Star Destroyer has "over a thousand weapons", but don't provide an extra sentence or two to say its composition. A considerable percentage of entries came from the Dark Empire comics, whose ships and vehicles have rarely been used outside those three comics. While the World Devastator and various starfighters within are of interest, who would care for the Amphibion water tank, TIE crawler tank or Hutt Caravel, that weren't even important in their respective comics? The EGVV features many stuff from quaint and obscure sources, like gargantuan insectile Ithullian ore haulers, Star Home, Shieldships, Coral Vanda and private vehicles to name a few. The manufacturer section in the beginning is useful in identifying who makes what. The errors and consistencies will appear only to the fan well conversant in SW lore. The TIE Defender made no mention of its tractor beam (neither did the NEGVV), the Sun Crusher looks different from its Dark Apprentice book's cover art, Star Home was undergunned from what its book said, are just some of the many but minor tidbits you'll discover. But it was the excessive redundancy that was the primary failing of this guide. Many important ships were omitted like the Strike Cruiser, Corellian Gunship, Assault Frigate, Floating Fortress and Golan battle stations, all in frequent and popular usage when this was done. Alas, the NEGVV omitted them as well. Yet there are THREE landspeeder entries, THREE Death Stars, TWO swoops and TWO B-wings. Overall, the EGVV is a great reference guide for those wondering what their SW ships and vehicles look and are, and with most of its contents unseen in the second guide, still have value as a current purchase.
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Summary: An excellent book for any Star Wars fan
Review: When it comes to science fiction, the Star Wars saga is the best. However, the films themselves give very little information regarding the vehicles used by characters in them. This is a shame, because the technology of everyone's favorite galaxy far far away is nothing short of fascinating. Finally, a book entitled Star Wars - The Essential Guide To Vehicles And Vessels was released! Now, fans would be able to learn about the ever-so awesome vehicles characters in the films used! Read on for my review of this book. PROS:
-If you're a fan of the Star Wars films, and you're interested in reading about the technical aspects of craft like the X-Wing fighter and the Imperial-Class Star Destroyer, this book will have more than enough information to make you happy.
-The book covers the expanded universe! This means the vehicles from Shadows Of The Empire appear here, as do vehicles that show up in later novels, comic books, video games, etc. Even if you're just a fan of the films, the information on the expanded universe will fascinate you.
-This book is readily available in most major bookstores (B. Dalton, Barnes And Noble, Borders, etc.) You shouldn't have any trouble finding it.
-The price for this book is very good, considering all the information it has to offer. This is a worthwhile purchase if you're a Star Wars fan. CONS:
-The major problem with this book is that it was released circa 1997. This means it came out before 1999, and accordingly the vehicles exclusive to the prequel films, Episode I and Episode II, don't appear in here.
-The only pictures in the book are black-and-white sketches. I would have liked to see some more detailed pictures, preferably in color. OVERALL:
If you're a Star Wars fan, I guarantee this book will fascinate you. If you're not a fan of the Star Wars series but know somebody who is, this makes a great gift. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: Excellent Doesn't Due it Justice
Review: In the immortal words of Darth Vader..."Impressive. Most Impressive." If you are a Star Wars fan, you need this book. Jam packed with amazing pictures and thorough specs, this book is a must-read for all Star Wars fans as well ads those who wish to scratch the Star Wars Surface and dig a little deeper. However, some people might find it superfolus to know have many proton torpedos the Y-wing can hold. (which incidently the books tells you is eight)
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Summary: Great help
Review: One of the things I hated about reading the older Star Wars books is the fact that there were so many new spaceships mentioned, but I had no idea what they looked like. This guide has sketches of all the ships it describes. Note: this book only contains ships mentioned in novels written before the release of Episode I and the storm of new books that followed.
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Summary: I love This book! Although it's missing a few ships.
Review: Like the previous reviewer said, this book is missing a few ships includeing the K-wing, and T-wing starfighters. Although I can easily forgive the author for this because this book was published nearly 2 years before the K-wing was introduced in the Star Wars universe. :) I bought this book back when it was first published in 1996 and to this day I still love to read it over and enjoy facts about some of my favorite ships! :) I hope the author will come out with an updated version sometime, but even if he doesn't this is still a nice reference tool to have. A must-have for a Star Wars junkie!
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Summary: One of the best in the series
Review: My first dabbling in the "Essential Guide" series was the Guide to Droids. After that I was thirsty for more and so I decided to buy the Guide to Verhicles and Vessels. I certainly didn't reget it. I really liked this Guide, although I thought the Guide to Droids was still even a little better. The book contains a nice selection of craft from both the films and the novels that ranges from several of the various Imperial Doomsday devices to ore haulers and freighters. and gives some interesting insights on these verhicles. My only point of critism to this book is that Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer was described as being much smaller than it seemed to be in the movies. This is just nitpicking though, an actually the only vague hint at critism I have towards this book. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels certainly is one of the best of the Star Wars guides and certainly worth the money if you like this series. Well done Mr. smith!
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Summary: An Essential Book For Star Wars Fans!
Review: An excellent book! Very informative! It has every ship the Rebellion, the Empire, and the New Republic used! I bet not many people knew that shortly before the Battle of Endor the Empire developed the TIE Defender! Or that the AT-PT (All Terrain Personal Transport) was developed by the Old Republic! Know you know! The only disappointment was that it didn't have any color pictures.
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Summary: Could have been more informative
Review: While this book is an excellent resource which contains drawings and simple schematics of 100 ships in the Star Wars universe, it could have had much more technical information than was provided. The book concentrated much more on the historical aspects of the ships, and didn't say much about the vehicles and vessels actual abilities. However, that said, the book did provide some technical info, and it was still very informative, and I do recommend it.
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